POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1916, 27 October 1906, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

AN INTERLUDE.

Special to the Times. Wellington, last night. Mr Thoa. Mackenzie hae the faculty of saying very nasty things in a very pleasant way, so that he generally esoapes the wrath of the House and of the Speaker under circumstances that would result ia the consigning of other less humorous members to the dungeon that is popularly supposed to exist underneath Bellamy’s This morning the Hon. Charles Mills, who was deposed from the Ministry to grapple with the most intricate problems of colonial fioanoe as ohairman of the Public Accounts Committee, bad got into a goodna ured alternation with Mr Jas. Allod, aLd personal explanations were coming thick and fast, Mr Mills rose for a final effort, when Mr Thos. Maokerzio f oreibly inierj cted that be had been listening to a lot of ‘‘ tcmmy-rot ’’ from that hoD. gentltmao, and ho hoped the House would now get to business. The House laughed, and Mr Mills, somawbat d'sconoHiod, cut his personal explanation very short. The mit'or under discussion, a report from the Committer, having been disposed of, Mr Buddr, who-o verbosity in pheno uoenal, was on Iris legs wish a final repott frem too Odmouittee oi which ho is chairman.

■Mr '■ MacksrzVs forcible but feeling interjaotioa of “0 Lord !" made members tm lo broadly.

Mr Buddo having disposed of the weighty nffaiis of State under his eba-ge, Mr Lawry commenced an illnminatiog discourse on pig-foeding in Auckland, bij remark? being punc-.untrd by loud interj’Ctions of “O-dor” from t-ha semi* recnm’otnl figure of the member for Ashburton, whose slumbers w-.ro evidently beirg disturbed by the transaction of business.